Play Music While You Half Electrocute Someone
Introducing the Taser that plays MP3s
"The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, which is expected to receive more than 140,000 visitors this week, is no stranger to bizarre gadgets but the iTaser - as it has been dubbed - must rank as one of the oddest. It combines a Taser stun gun, used by 12,000 law enforcement and security forces, including the Metropolitan police, with an MP3 player and earphones.
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Arizona-based Taser International sells the handheld stun guns under the rather hyperbolic banner of "Changing the World and Protecting Lives". It maintains that the iTaser "allows for both personal protection and personal music for people on the go".
According to Rick Smith, founder of the company, "personal protection can be both fashionable and functionable".
So what happens if you push the wrong button?
"The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, which is expected to receive more than 140,000 visitors this week, is no stranger to bizarre gadgets but the iTaser - as it has been dubbed - must rank as one of the oddest. It combines a Taser stun gun, used by 12,000 law enforcement and security forces, including the Metropolitan police, with an MP3 player and earphones.
(...)
Arizona-based Taser International sells the handheld stun guns under the rather hyperbolic banner of "Changing the World and Protecting Lives". It maintains that the iTaser "allows for both personal protection and personal music for people on the go".
According to Rick Smith, founder of the company, "personal protection can be both fashionable and functionable".
So what happens if you push the wrong button?
posted by nolocontendere at 7:34 PM
2 Comments:
i'm pretty sure someone is coming up with a way to add in a cell phone to that mix.
don't know whether to laugh or throw up after reading this. perhaps both.
How did we get to this bizarro existence, neener?
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